By
Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on February 23, 2021 at 4:19 PM
F-35 training simulator
WASHINGTON: “The principal challenge DoD faces is not a lack of innovation,” Christine Fox told Congress Tuesday. “The tougher task is how to adopt all this new innovation more rapidly into DoD programs….We have lots of prototypes but what we need is sustainable programs.”
Fox, the former head of the Pentagon’s powerful Cost Assessment & Program Evaluation (CAPE) unit, was testifying to the first-ever hearing of House Armed Services’ newest subcommittee, Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems. The topic of the day was innovation – but Fox and her fellow acquisition experts on the panel made clear that having lots of neat ideas was far from enough.